Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Editorial Principles -- A Dissolving View -- Introduction to John Leonard Knapp's: Country Rambles in England -- or, Journal of a Naturalist -- Introduction to: The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life: Or, Selections from Fields Old and New -- Preface to the 1868 edition of Rural Hours -- Later Hours -- Village Improvement Societies -- Otsego Leaves I: Birds Then and Now -- Otsego Leaves II: The Bird Mediæval -- Otsego Leaves III: The Bird Primeval -- A Lament for the Birds -- Emendations -- Textual Notes -- Explanatory Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.